A complete guide to medication management for physicians, nurses, caregivers and other long-term care professionals.
This comprehensive tool kit, the result of a rigorous three year development process, walks medical directors, physicians, and licensed staff through each step of implementing a medication management program in their facility.
Reduce medication errors and adverse drug events with an interdisciplinary approach to medication management.
Medication errors endanger the health of your patients, fill emergency rooms and hospital beds, and contribute to escalating healthcare costs. And with the new F-Tag 329, facilities will be under scrutiny for unnecessary medications.
Multidisciplinary Medication Management Tool Kit is the solution to your medication management problems. If you follow the guidelines put forth in this comprehensive tool kit, your facility will be able to:
- Identify both actual and potential medication-related problems
- Improve systems and processes of care
- Reduce the clinical and financial impact of inappropriate drug use
- Provide medication management education to members of the interdisciplinary care team
- Improve the medical care of residents through more appropriate drug use
Take a look at all the benefits of this easy-to-implement program
Medication optimization produces a multitude of benefits, including:
- A reduction in the actual and potential incidence of ADRs.
- A reduction in nursing time devoted to dispensing and documenting medications.
- Fewer opportunities for medication errors.
- A reduction in unnecessary care, resulting in lower costs.
- Improved regulatory compliance.
This valuable tool kit contains:
- two books
- a comprehensive, process-oriented approach to all areas of medication management containing 12 chapters covering everything from prescribing to quality assurance
- a resource book with references, policies and procedures, and helpful appendices such as a list of commonly used medical abbreviations
- laminated tool templates including:
- Admission Order Form with plan of care
- Admission Enteral Form with plan of care
- Intravenous Order Form with plan of care
- Universal Transfer form
- 24 Hour Report form for Nursing staff
- a CD-ROM with the resource book and tool templates
- two wall posters
- a video on proper medication administration for the nursing staff
About AMDA Tool Kits
With the Multidisciplinary Medication Management Tool Kit you’ll get the process-oriented best practices you need to provide first-rate, person-centric, survey-compliant resident care. The user-friendly tools and resources allow you to easily educate every member of the interdisciplinary care team, ensuring consistency while saving your staff valuable time and effort.
The information and policies found in Multidisciplinary Medication Management Tool Kit do not conflict with any existing nursing home policies and procedures. With solid care processes in place, you can rest assured that regulations will fall in line.
The Multidisciplinary Medication Management Tool Kit provides practitioners in long-term care settings the essential information and user-friendly tools they need to improve resident care, enhance medication management, and reduce medication errors. So what are you waiting for? Place your order today.
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American Medical Directors Assosciation
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